Chapter-53

Last night was surreal. Every moment, every second of that night is imprinted in my head. As soon as I close my eyes I see those visuals run before my eyes.

The rain, her singing, our proximity, the water droplets hitting her.

It all feels like a dream.

But I know it's not because the blood stained matteress pulled me back into reality. When I saw the blood all the alarms in my head ringed.

Kuhu is a virgin.

I never considered that Kuhu and Xavier might not actually be a couple, that nikaloi might actually not be her son.

To be honest it didn't matter to me. All I ever loved was kuhu and everything that came along with her is dear to me. Even if it's a son born from her other marriage.

I never really cared about that child but kuhu loves him deeply. Seeing her care for him so deeply actually made me have a soft corner for him over time. I could feel their bond.

Real son or not she cares for him like a mother.

Actually pondering over nikaloi made me realise how dumb I have been this whole time.

He is about to be a year old and kuhu has been away for a year only.

He is definitely not her son.

But then her marriage with Xavier.

It did cross my mind that maybe that fucker forced her, that's why I assured her that she can tell me anything.

But I don't think that it's that.

I have seen Xavier the way he looks at her.

He is fond of her.

I know he can't hurt her.

Then what is it? I have been thinking about it since I came back this morning.

It's now evening and still I hve no idea what is going on.

Why are they married?

Who is nikaloi's actual mother?

How did kuhu get involved with Xavier?

I rub my fingers over my temples, my head throbbing with pain. This all is driving me crazy.

I hear a shrill cry of a baby and look at the door.

I see luca with nikaloi in his arm's crying while luca is bending his legs at some weird angles.

What is he is even doing?

Break dancing.

He is folding his legs in a bizzare way while hopping. Nikaloi cries more while luca tries to shush him.

"What is going on?"

I ask

Luca looks at me with a look of relief.

"Frattteeellllllooooo"

He shrills.

"Stop screaming like a pig and tell me what are you doing?"

I ask

"Oh, wait."

He hops his way upto me and suddenly puts nikaloi into my lap.

"What the fuck luca?"

"What are you doing?"

I question surprised.

"Cognata is sleeping and told me to take care of nikaloi but I have to poop."

He says with his face all red like he is holding back bricks of shit from falling out of his ass.

I make a face of disgust upon hearing him.

"So please take care of him. I'll be back."

He hops his way out.

As he reaches the door he farts and then runs like his ass is on fire.

Disgusting.

I look down at the problem he just pushed in my lap.

I see him looking up at me with his big baby eyes.

His mouth a bit agape. He tilts his head to the side while he continues staring at me.

I give him an awkward smile.

I see that he has stopped crying. His nose and those baby cheeks still a bit red.

He puts up his hands trying to reach out for me.

I smile and give him my finger. His whole hand encloses around my one finger as he looks at it with curiousty.

He looks at my hand and then at me. He does it for a few times then finally smiles at me.

I see his gummy smile with only his lower two teeth.

HE'S SO CUTE.

I feel my heart fluttering on seeing him smile and laugh. I feel myself grinning as I pick him up and make him stand on his feet. I bring him close to me and kiss his cheek.

He laughs again and this time even I laugh hearing him.

I look at him and see that he is an exact replica of Xavier.

"Your father is a dick but you are soooo cutteeee."

I say in a baby voice.

He tilts his head as he listens to me.

"How can Xavier has such a cute son?"

"He don't deserve this angel."

"He looks like a rotten banana how come he gave birth to such a cute baby?"

"Is it even his baby?"

"But the eyes, hair and looks are identical to that jerk, what a pity?"

"Why does he have such a cute baby?"

But the more important question right now is who is the mother of niko and how does Kuhu got entangled with Xavier. As I ponder upon these question I hear nikolai cry.

"Wait"

"What happened?"

"You were just laughing a while ago , why are you crying now ?"

"What did I miss?"

He cries even louder.

Ugh! babies are to weird.

"There There."

I pat his back as he puts his head on my shoulder, his littlehands around my neck

A few mins pass by and he quiets down.

I keep patting his back.

I can feel him slowly falling asleep. I gently pry him off my shoulders and put him in lap.

He is fast asleep with his little hands fisted and his face pouting.

"Now I see why everyone is obsessed with you."

I say as I smile down looking at him.

..................

"Lorenzo I need your help."

Xavier says as he barges noisly into my study

I quickly put my finger over my lips and sush him down. He raises his brows confused by my gesture. I point down at my lap. His eyes follow my finger and he looks down to niko sleeping peacefully in my lap.

He nods in acknowledgement as he slowly comes in front of my table and plops on the chair facing me.

"What is he doing here?"

He asks in a shushed voice.

"Kuhu was sleeping and luca had to take a shit so he dropped him here."

"Oh."

He nods

"Well what do you want this time you fucker?"

I ask

I notice his expression shift. He is in a shabby condition. His hair is a mess, there are bags underneath his eyes, his clothes disheveled.

Oh, he is going through it.

"Last night our servers were hacked and a lot of sensitive information got leaked."

"So whats that to with me?"

"I am not a computer specialist."

"Wait, are you suspecting me?"

"Well let me tell you I was living the time of my life last night and was not involved in any of this petty shit."

"I know that you were not involved and neither are you a computer specialist."

"But you have someone who is a computer specialist, especially in this type of situations."

"Luca"

"But is the situation this bad that you have to ask your rival for help?"

I ask him smirking.

Finally I got my hands on this little shit.

"It wouldn't have been if the information was not being transfered to European intelligence."

"What?"

I ask flabbergasted.

"This some serious shit we are talking here Xavier. Who has got the balls to transfer your intel to army. This could lead to war. And a war means ceasing of business of all the mafias across the globe."

"We can't let this happen not when we just came out of a slump."

"I know that's why I am asking you for help?"

"But still why luca?"

"I know he is great at this witchy computer stuff but you have got some skilled man too.

Also you could've asked any other mafisio for help.

Why me?"

"Because all the information right now is being encrypted into an Italian server and if I don't stop it by 12:00am, this midnight all the information would be transferred automatically to the intelligence agencies."

"An Italian server?"

I ask

"Yes, now you must know who all is behind this."

"Oh, trust me I know."

I clench my jaw.

"Now help me before this all gets messy."

He tells me

I put my head back on the chair and look at him.

He is desperate right now and desperation leads to chaos.

I know I need to deal with this because if not then I'll be dragged down too in this mess.

Everyone will see it as my doing and no matter what you do in a mafia war, one thing that is off limit is dragging armies.

But I won't give in without having what I want.

I fist my hands and say

"There is something I want."

He sighs as if expecting it.

"You know you will go down too with me in this. Everyone will see this as your doing and you'll be banned. So it's mutual help I am asking for."

I smile as I speak

"You are my biggest rival yet you know that I am not behind this how long do you think will it take to convince others that I am not the one behind this."

A stoic expressed rests on his face as he says

"Don't you care about him being exposed as the preparator."

My smile widens as I say

"NOT. EVEN. A. BIT."

"What do you want?"

He asks the question I have been dying to hear.

.................

Luca moves his hands on the keyboard as the loud clacking sound surrounds everyone.

Everyone in the room is quiet and observing luca, who is focused on the computer.

His hands move speedily as he closes one tab followed by another all the while writing something hastily.

A few more minutes passby and he finally stops

"Done."

He is says as I look over at the computer screen.

The timer which was appearing before showing how many hours we have left before midnight was gone.

"I have stopped the data transfer and all the data which he have acquired has become inaccessible. It's all destroyed. Noone will be able to access it."

Everyone breaths a sigh of relief.

"Secure the data now, make sure there is no breach in the security and don't let this happen again."

Xavier says to his men, they nod and start working on their computers.

I stand up and give luca a pat on the back

"Good gob."

"Well fratello you could thank me by buying out that island which I wanted."

He asks slyly.

"Luca don't test my patience, go play video games."

I say smilingly.

He huffs and stomps his foot but follows my orders.

I turn to look at Xavier who is alreading looking at me. His face mirroring a look of defeat as if despite of the problem being taken care of he lost today.

He turns his back to me.

He might feel that I won but I sure as hell doesn't feel like it.

"Capo, capo."

A worker runs in while shouting my name.

"Miss kuhu, she....

She trails off huffing

"Miss kuhu what?"

Xavier shouts as we all look at her waiting for an answer.

She fainted.

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